Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watching and listening to Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” at Sarasota Opera is a bit like sitting through a collection of opera’s ...

“Carmen” is, in a word, problematic, but ballet companies and opera houses continue to stage versions of Bizet’s opera, a tale of a free-spirited Romani who seduces a soldier, only to be killed by him ...

When the Canadian Opera Company production of Carmen premiered in 2005, a young Joel Ivany was an extra posing as a photographer in the scene wherein the bullfighter Escamillo makes his entrance.

Wilmington Concert Opera announced a collaboration with Philadelphia-based Opera Fresca to perform Bizet's CARMEN in the ...

With two weeks remaining in the rehearsal period, Festival Opera announced a major and unforeseen cast change Saturday in the company’s new production of Georges Bizet’s iconic opera, “Carmen.” ...

When Bizet’s opera Carmen was first performed in 1875, critics reported the reception was "glacial." After only 33 performances the composer died suddenly, never to know of the international success ...

Georges Bizet’s classic opera “Carmen” is an absolutely wonderful (and quite perfect) piece of musical Art. It has all the elements that one would look for in a fantastic Virginia Opera production.

Ginger Costa-Jackson is Carmen in Maria Todaro’s Florida Grand Opera production of George Bizet’s opera, opening April 12 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami. (Photo by Walt ...

Not all the directorial decisions work equally well, but we’ll get to one of those later. Bizet’s score has been trimmed slightly and we don’t get all the dialogue, but the cuts mean that the evening ...